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Email PageRalph Fasanella: Artist of the People
December 9, 2006- January 13, 2007
Reception: December 9, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Ralph Fasanella
ACA Galleries
529 W 20th St Ralph Fasanella A Bomb (Lifetime Guarantee) (1964) |
January 27, 3-5pm: Gallery Talk at ACA Galleries with Paul D’Ambrosio, talk begins at 4pm
ACA Galleries is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by renowned self-taught artist Ralph Fasanella. This retrospective, celebrating his life and art, commemorates the 10th anniversary of his death.
Fasanella’s paintings depict his experiences living in New York City. His colorful canvases teem with people, buildings, newspaper headlines, baseball parks and other scenes of daily life and convey the energy and vitality of the city.
His works portray the lives of the people and places he observed including childhood memories of selling ice with his father, playing stickball, and later working as a union organizer and laborer. He recorded and critiqued many of the major political and social events of the 20th Century such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the detonation of the first atomic bomb.
It was not until 1945, at the age of thirty-one and without any formal artistic training, he began to paint while a union organizer for the United Electrical Workers of the CIO. In 1947 he had the first of his first of several solo exhibitions at ACA Galleries.
After years of painting he was "discovered" in 1972 while working at his brother’s gas station and his rise to prominence quickly followed. On October 30, 1972 he was the subject of a featured cover story of New York Magazine and in 1973 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. published Fasanella’s City, a monograph, by Patrick Watson.
He has had many solo museum exhibitions, most recently his paintings have been on exhibit at The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York (June - September 2000) and at the Fenimore Art Museum of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, New York (April 1 - December 31, 2001).
His work can be found in numerous public collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY as well as many other museums, public buildings and private collections.
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